Now Delia this isn't answering my question...
Anonymous30 June 2021 at 13:55
"It's a great pity he didn't live to see my trail-blazing novel Granny Barkes Fell In Woolworths published".
No-one could possibly live that long.
"It was to have been published in the springtime"
No, it wasn't.
"but Covid-19 put paid to that".
No, it didn't.
"It will now be published in the autumn".
No, it won't.
"It's being brought out by a publisher in California".
No, it isn't.
Now Delia this isn't answering my question. Please address my question: Do you have any information about Detters' memoirs?
Detters saw himself as a writer. Not in the same ballpark as me of course but he had a basic competency. The problem was his cloying, Thesaurus-driven prose. In fact I was once thinking of engaging him on a joint venture - a book entitled In the Steps of the Saints of the North East. Detters would do the legwork and I would knock the texts into shape. Plenty of material there; Cuthbert, Wilfrid, Aidan et al.
Lindisfarne
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